Installing CTERA Portal

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Use the following workflow to install CTERA Portal on each server.

1 Creating a Portal Instance using a CTERA Portal image from CTERA support at http://support.ctera.com.

2 Logging In to the CTERA Portal Server and Configuring it with the Storage and changing the password.

4 Additional Installation Instructions for Customers Without Internet Access

5 For the first server you install, follow all of the steps in Configuring the CTERA Portal Master Server.

6 For any additional servers beside the master server, configure the server as an additional server as described in Installing Additional CTERA Portal Servers (Except for AWS).

7 Make sure that you replicate the database, as described in Backing Up the Database.

Note: You can use block-storage-level snapshots for backup, but snapshots are periodical in nature, configured to run every few hours. Therefore, you cannot recover the metadata to any point-in-time, and can lose a significant amount of data on failure. Also, many storage systems do not support block-level snapshots and replication, or do not do so efficiently.